In a special deep-dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” residential school survivors, church leaders anda historian explain how and why Catholic religious orders like the Oblates of Mary Immaculate partnered with the Canadian government to operate schools that forcibly removed Indigenous children from the care of their parents-which flew in the face of Catholic teahings on the importance of the family-and aimed, as Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs once put it, to “Kill the Indian; save the man.” .. read the whole description and listen to the podcast here
